Transcript The Affordable Housing Action Network

National Housing Day 2014
Reflections on the Past
 A network of like-
minded individuals
representing
community agencies
concerned with
addressing the issues
of affordable housing
and homelessness in
and surrounding
Hastings County.
 Community Advocacy & Legal Centre
 Three Oaks - Women’s Shelter
 Hastings County Social Services
 Youth Habilitation
 Hastings County Housing Services
 Canadian Mental Health Association
 Hastings Housing Resource Centre
AHAN believes that
everyone has a right
to safe, secure and
affordable housing
We will strive to create more affordable
housing options for people who are
precariously housed or homeless using a
variety of approaches including:

collaborative networking

housing development

capacity building and;

advocacy
AHAN National Housing Day
Each year, the AHAN Information Network
Committee dedicates its efforts to organize an event
that brings our colleagues together from all areas of
Hastings County.
We focus on what is relevant in our community
today and reflect on the challenges and successes of
the past year.
 Working in partnership with AHAN and other local
agencies to host National Housing Day events
 Facilitating the creation of new affordable housing
through CMHC tools and resources
 Sharing innovative affordable housing solutions from
across Ontario and Canada
 November 22 is marked as National Housing Day
across Canada – commemorating the day in 1998 when
then-Toronto Mayor Mel Lastman and the mayors of
Canada’s biggest cities adopted a Declaration from the
Toronto Disaster Relief Committee to declare
homelessness a national disaster.
 The mayors, invoking their power to declare a state of
emergency, called on the federal and provincial
governments to take emergency actions to support
homeless people
 Since then, the day has been adopted by community
organizations across the country, municipalities and
even Canada’s national housing agency (Canada
Mortgage and Housing Corporation) as a day devoted
to housing issues and housing solutions.
 9th year that AHAN has celebrated this day
 Reflection of past events
National Housing Day 2010 Quinte West
Hoarding 101
National Housing Day 2012
Madoc
 Housing First
 Poverty Round Table
 All Roads Lead to Home
 Pocket Housing
Here we are today!
Welcome Panel Members